Englewood, NJ

About Englewood

The City of Englewood is located 10 minutes from New York City. Englewood has a vibrant downtown that includes the Bergen Performing Arts Center, upscale eateries, boutiques, beauty salons, antique stores, over a dozen banks, car dealerships, ethnic restaurants and specialty shops. The downtown has evolved into a major restaurant and shopping hub for the surrounding northern valley communities. The diverse cultural population of Englewood is approximately 29,000. Within the city’s 5 square miles there are over 50 houses of worship and 14 private and public schools. We have an award winning regional hospital, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, serving residents in Northern New Jersey and bordering counties in New York.

The City operates a Trolley Shuttle Service for residents. The service provides transportation to and from the commuter bus lines in the morning and evening rush hours as well as service into the downtown for shopping and dining. The City of Englewood Farmer’s Market is open each year from mid-summer to fall, at the corner of Demarest Avenue and North Van Brunt Street. Featuring farm fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers, herbs, organic baked goods, gluten free baked goods, gourmet nuts, dried fruits, Greek delicacies, soaps, oils and more.

The City’s recreational facilities feature basketball and tennis courts, baseball, football and soccer fields. We also have a skating rink located at MacKay Park. There are 2 city pools for use in the summer. The Recreation Department has programs for children, as well as adults.

Flat Rock Brook Nature Center, located on the western slope of the Palisades, is a 150-acre preserve and education center. The Center was established in 1973 by citizens who were deeply committed to land conservation and environmental education. Flat Rock provides environmental education programs for all ages in order to generate understanding and appreciation of nature and to instill a sense of responsibility and knowledge of the means to protect the natural world and its resources for future generations.

Origin of name

Englewood Township, the city’s predecessor, is believed to have named in 1859 because the community had been called the “English Neighborhood”, as the first primarily English-speaking settlement on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River after New Netherland was annexed by England in 1664, though other sources mention the Engle family and the heavily-forested areas of the community as the derivation of the name. Numerous other settlements in the United States were named for Englewood as settlement in North America expanded westward. J. Wyman Jones is credited with convincing residents to choose Englewood for the city’s name when it was incorporated over such alternatives as “Brayton” and “Paliscena”.

The telephone industry made a United States “first” in Englewood with the introduction of what is known now as Direct distance dialing (DDD). On November 10, 1951, Englewood Mayor M. Leslie Denning made the first directly-dialed long distance call, to Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, California. As of that date, customers of the ENglewood 3, ENglewood 4 and TEaneck 7 exchanges (who could already dial New York City and area) were able to dial 11 cities across the United States, simply by dialing the three-digit area code and the seven digit number (or the three-digit area code and the local number of two letters and five digits).

High school students from Englewood and all of Bergen County may also apply on a competitive basis to attend the public Bergen County Technical High Schools and Bergen County Academies, with the former located in Teterboro and Paramus and the latter located in Hackensack.[52]

As an alternative to regular public education, Englewood has the Englewood on the Palisades Charter School (216; K-5). Shalom Academy, a charter school with a focus on Hebrew language immersion, is scheduled open for grades K-5 in September 2012, serving students from both Englewood and Teaneck. The school had originally planned to open for the 2011-12 school year, but was forced to delay its opening date for 12 months after it was unable to demonstrate to the New Jersey Department of Education that it had obtained an appropriate facility to house its students and was given a “planning year” by the NJDoE to address outstanding issues.

From EnglewoodStyle.com

Tucked up at the tip of Bergen County, minutes from the George Washington Bridge, and as far away from Manhattan as you want it to be, Englewood’s a place where the pleasures of hometown meet worldly, sophisticated taste levels to create an Englewood Style all its own. Its vibrant downtown is easy to get to, a pleasure when you arrive, and a destination for shopping, dining, and culture to be visited again and again.

Within walking distance of Bergen Performing Arts Center—the brilliant centerpiece of the downtown’s cultural life— there are hundreds of incredible shops that have put Englewood on the map of savvy shopaholics for generations. Couture labels, children’s clothes, Tibetan carpets, upscale consignment, diamonds, art, antiques, rare orchids, kitchen appliances, custom-mixed paints… all, much and more, are right next door to bagel stores, bakeries, neighborhood bodegas, and, of course, Baumgart’s Café and Soda Fountain that’s been holding its place in the heart of downtown for decades.

With more than forty restaurants and eateries generously sprinkled over the downtown district, there’s a cosmopolitan mix of food options with everything from a four-star slice of pizza to haute and ethnic cuisine on the Englewood menu.

A charming streetscape with convenient parking helps extend a warm welcome to everyone, both residents and visitors alike. But Englewood’s more than just another pretty town. It’s a showpiece for the best of Bergen County arts and entertainment…a shopping and dining destination with the highest standards for quality, value and personal service at every turn…and the only place to come for fun, fashion, food Englewood Style.

Kimberly Jones (born 1975), a female rapper otherwise known as Lil’ Kim.

Dr. John Lattimer (1914–2007), urologist who did extensive research on the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations and who had an extensive collection of military paraphernalia, which included “medieval armor, Revolutionary and Civil War rifles and swords, a pile of cannonballs, World War II machine guns and German Lugers, and drawings by Adolf Hitler.”

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